Panama Canal restrictions may trigger supply chain changes
At the start of the week AIS tracking site Vesselfinder showed 123 ships waiting to transit the Panama Canal, which is almost a third over the average since the Canal…
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Shipping lines working hard to restore rates
The container shipping lines are fighting to impose freight rate increases across the major Atlantic and Pacific trade-lanes, in an attempt to recover operations back into the black and lose…
EU end carrier anti-trust exemption
With the European Union ending antitrust exemption for the container shipping alliances and imposing carbon taxes on shipping, the lines already have a challenging 2024. The abolition of the Consortia…
Container shipping line options for 2024
Despite vocal shipper complaints and the EU’s subsequent action on CBER, there’s no compelling case that carriers abused market power during the pandemic. In fact the extraordinary impact of COVID…
Shippers need to take note of EU-ETS surcharge
New EU emissions regulations are set to come into force in January, covering voyages into, out of and through the EEA and the maritime industry’s cost of compliance could be…
New vessels join global fleet as sailings blanked
The percentage of industry-wide blanked capacity between Asia and Europe has increased significantly from previous years to 17%, with Golden Week cancellations spiking, while 47 new container ships have already…
Sea freight capacity cuts ex Asia to USA and Europe
With less than four weeks before China’s national Golden Week holiday (1st-7th October) following which the traditional slack season begins, the container shipping lines are ramping-up their trans-Pacific and North…
Trans-Atlantic opportunities but you need to act now
After three years, the container shipping lines’ trans-Atlantic feeding frenzy is over and with rates now well below pre-pandemic levels, this is the time for shippers to take advantage -…
Panama Canal risk rising
While ongoing vessel and draft restrictions on the Panama Canal have not impacted shippers yet, we are monitoring the increasing queue of container ships waiting to transit the canal closely,…
Asia and freight market update; August 2023
The container shipping line’s capacity management is driving rate recovery from Asia to the US, Europe and the Med, while the quiet summer period continued in airfreight markets during July,…
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